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Sunshine
12hr ago
The word 'men' conveys inherent dignity, and even saying the words 'white men' has become right-coded. That's why when the Harris campaign decided to make a Zoom call for every race/gender combo, the names were Black Men for Harris but White Dudes for Harris. Calling the white dudes 'men' would be too respectful in the mind of the politics-brained consultant who came up with it. They flinch back from it, even subconsciously.
Some day I will write an essay on the psychological fuckedupedness that the Western left has towards men.
When you look at the tenets of Liberalism you can see Trump is a liberal. A soft one, but one none the less. George Bush was also a liberal to a large extent.
Yes, not only are They doing the Great Replacement, but also they have picked immigrants which will reliably vote for the Democrats for the next 1000 years. Everyone knows that Latinos have the commie gene, after all.
Yeah, maybe in a 1000 years democrats will have figured out how to reach the youth? I mean, apologies for the snark but I'd argue that it's our more immediate circumstance that make this topic relevant. Also, as an edited side note, the genetic impact on political ideals relating to collectivism and individualism is very real.
In the real world, things are different.
How? The brown youth consistently vote democrat regardless. That cold hard election data year in year out, ongoing for what, decades?. On top of that, Middle Easterners who vote for a 'right wing' authoritarian in their own country vote left in the country they migrated to.
So yeah, maybe in a 1000 years, when the last white man in the world is dead and buried and can no longer act as the evil boogeyman, the brown folks, being unburdened by his white supremacy, can finally act in accordance with their true faith?
Also, in a two-party system, both parties will adapt until they are seen as a viable alternative by the median voter. For example, neither party is campaigning on repealing the 19th because that would be immensely unpopular.
Right, but considering our usage of ideological terminology like 'right wing' what does that mean? The republicans will need to appeal to the ever more brown voting base that wants things the democrats are promising them. So what will become of the Republican party? How can it pretend to be 'right wing' at that point?
I feel like this only underscores how ethnic replacement has been a winning democrat strategy.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
12hr ago
Why is Lincoln keeping the federal military in the harbors of another nation? It’s obviously a performative provocation which his base is lapping up.
The guy doing the most to fan the flames of civil war is the President himself.
remzem
12hr ago
What kind of resistance?
Ramming an ICE vehicle with a car multiple times while armed seems like a bit more than malicious compliance. Every single time a car leaves or enters the ICE facility there it needs riot police to stop protestors from throwing rocks and otherwise attacking the officers. Your post is complete propaganda.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12hr ago
A significant percentage of people really believed the soft or hard version of the stolen election theory, such that they didn't believe Harris could lose. Similar to how many if not most Eagles fans thought the Chiefs couldn't lose in the super bowl, even when neutral analysts would give them the advantage at every position but kicker and QB. Some percentage of Harris belief was really "the election is fake" belief.
I thought Harris was playing for an honorable second from the assassination on. She didn't manage it.
orthoxerox
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12hr ago
The action-adventure parts are very Jack London, that is, good. Characters are all painted with a mildly racist brush, that is, broadly true and not one-dimensional, but still superficial and somewhat uncomfortable to read in 2025.
haroldbkny
12hr ago
Maybe. I remember some talk here about how the attempt won Trump the election, but I remember that being short lived, maybe a week or a weekend. I distinctly remember in this forum people being very fatalistic about Harris's victory up until the night of the election.
Rov_Scam
12hr ago
I don't know what gives you the idea that an open door would not qualify. The statute makes no mention of doors, and only requires that you know that you're not supposed to be in there. If I walk down the street and see a house with an open door and I just walk in I'd be guilty of criminal trespass. If I opened a closed door a breaking would have occurred and the offense would be upgraded. The statute is specifically written to cover cases involving open doors.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
I think the CP5 were likely guilty.
They were not guilty of the specific charges they were facing (we know this because someone else was).
gattsuru
12hr ago
If Democrats believe what they claim to believe, then their actions are in line with those values. ICE agents look like an angry paramilitary that a dictator would deploy against his populace. People believe what they see. Democrats are cherry picking, but the cherry picked images are still real images.
Does this rule apply to any other political cause?
Because we had a debate about a predawn raid where masked and unidentifiable men broke down someone's door and shot the guy in the head over some simple paperwork crimes -- complete with defiance of long-standing policy and only-by-the-text compliance with a warrant -- and people here defended it as all acceptable because He Broke The Law.
For some reason, the cherrypicked image of his ventilated skull wasn't a cause celebre nor a moment for deep retroflection on the costs of a cause; at most, it was reason Those Damned Republicans Should Want Police Reform (that won't apply here). Nor, for that matter, were the dozens of other examples going back decades, sometimes with far greater casualty counts, which, to skip the charcoal briquettes rant, did nothing to sate progressive efforts to The Cause.
Ah, well, nonetheless.
Perhaps there are clear examples of immigration enforcement that weren't cause celebres for the Left? The Nicer, Kinder, Cruelty Isn't The Point 2018 policies were not tolerated and accepted -- even when some of the outrage was based on photos dating to the previous Democratic admin, or entirely made up, it still became The Worst Thing Ever at the same time it didn't work, only for all of those problems to get shoved back in the box as soon as something was (D)ifferent in the Presidency.
orthoxerox
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12hr ago
It's not this long. I've been playing it for 30 hours, according to Steam, and according to the other commenters, I have probably five hours of plot left.
when I see a JRPG (FRPG? EuRPG?)
It's "JeRPG". Well, mechanically it's pretty much a standard JRPG with a few "must keep the player engaged" changes that I'm not a fan of, the big draws to me are the setting and the writing.
Japanese games are much more adventurous with their settings, but even they are prone to defaulting to X-buts ("it's basically X, but...") these days. CO is completely alien and weird, it's like you're trapped in a surrealist painting. The only annoyance is the lack of structured exposition. You start the game in the middle of an important weird ceremony, and you have no idea what's going on. Your PC knows what's going to happen, everyone around him knows, but you don't. You have to piece everything together from bits of dialogue. I know the reason, but it's a cheap narrative trick, especially in a video game.
The writing is very... French. You know what beats an American story would have, what beats a Japanese one, you can peg the archetypes of the party members right after meeting them (with a few subversive X-buts in the mix). Well, not in CO. Well, partly. Sometimes a brooding guy with a deep dark secret is just a brooding guy with a deep dark secret, it must be a universal trope. But the way he's positioned in the overarching story is different.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
The states are not (formally) subsidiaries to the Federal Government, and the anti-commandeering doctrine means the Federal Government cannot compel states to assist it in enforcement of Federal law. However, this does not mean states can forbid the Feds from enforcing Federal law themselves, nor interfere with that enforcement. In these cases the Feds have been enforcing Federal law themselves, and the interference has been from private parties ("protestors"), not the state governments. The Feds, then claim the authority to bring in the National Guard to protect their own law enforcement officers -- this is the "protective power" which is somewhat controversial but not unprecedented.
Note that the various [StateName] National Guards, despite the names, are not actually state entities; they are under dual control -- normally state control, but they can be "federalized" under various conditions.
Lurking not very far in the background is the Insurrection Act, which allows the use of the military (including but not limited to the National Guard) when the President declares certain conditions have been met.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12hr ago
Nope.
If it happens—and please, consult the sign—it’ll be economic, not social. You’d need enough young men to fall below the threshold of employability. That includes our traditional safety valve, the infantry. When young men have nothing left to do but police the community, maybe we end up pivoting towards entrenched local monopolies on violence. But that also assumes the higher echelons don’t get any more effective.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
12hr ago
there is no reason to believe that any other plausible method would deliver better results.
This is factually false. E-verify is a thing. If you want to stop people who are not authorized to work from working, then mandating that employers actually check that their employees are authorized to work for them seems like an obvious step to take.
If you haven't even taken the step of mandating the use of e-verify for all employers, I don't believe you when you say "but we have to disappear people, it's the only strategy that could possibly work".
zeke5123a
12hr ago
I think the CP5 were likely guilty.
Also Trump isn’t unique in his lying. He lies a lot. But so do other politicians. Trump is simply more uncouth.
You make it sound like this is some unusual gross injustice. But if you look at the Pennsylvania laws for Criminal Trespass:
For which walking through an open door does not qualify.
Margaret Aislinn Channon, a 26-year-old Tacoma resident was sentenced to five years in prison in March 2022. She was charged with five counts of arson after setting five Seattle police cars on fire during a protest on May 30, 2020.
5 counts of arson and got a lighter sentence than people who just walked through a door.
The charge was “unlawful possession of a destructive device.”
This is an ATF/NFA charge, not related to rioting.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Most illegals are nominally Christian, but they’re not really more religious on average than Americans.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12hr ago
I realize that it’s probably more complicated, but that sounds like a real own goal for states’ rights enthusiasts.
I’m not clear on what all the federal government gets to compel from its subsidiaries. I have the vague impression it’s whatever it wants, but only if it threatens to withhold highway funding.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12hr ago
I’d actually really appreciate a writeup on the jurisprudence. It feels like the federal government wasn’t supposed to compel actions from lower levels…at some point. But I’m well aware of incorporation and of the myriad ways to apply the commerce clause.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
Yes, the people opposing ice believe the median illegal is good for America. They like someone else doing the lower construction jobs and janitorial work it takes to keep a society running.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12hr ago
Here in Texas we’re getting radio ads to that effect.
“If you’re in the country illegally, leave.”
Definitely in line with the strategy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
Warren v DC
Warren v. DC is even more upsetting because it's in DC where at the time you couldn't prepare to defend yourself effectively (with a gun) either. Probably still can't. However, the Federal Government is not subject to such restrictions and CAN defend its agents (either through the protective power if it holds up, or via the Insurrection Act), and I see no reason to be upset at them doing it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12hr ago
This isn’t brinksmanship.
The Trump administration must end the war on Chicago. The Trump administration must end this war against Americans. The Trump administration must end its attempt to dismantle our democracy.
They have repeatedly called for a rematch [of the Civil War], but in the coming weeks, we will use this opportunity to build greater resistance. Chicagoans are clear that militarizing our troops in our city as justification to further escalate a war in Chicago will not be tolerated.
What kind of resistance? Anti-ICE signs, apparently. Maybe some malicious compliance. Chicago isn’t importing military hardware. It’s not calling for volunteers. It’s not even obstructing the federal agents and troops who are already there. No, the ball is in the President’s court. He holds all the cards, right? He can threaten to make things worse and worse until he gets what he wants.
That’s brinksmanship.
Totalitarianit
13hr ago
I can't help but see every counter proposal made thus far as anything other than favorable to progressives and detrimental to Republicans and their voters.
If they try to be legally efficient and spend months checking boxes for every potential deportee, it slows the process and works in favor of Democrats and progressives.
If they defer to local law enforcement overseen by Democratic mayors, it slows the process and works in favor of Democrats and progressives.
If agents remove their masks and get doxxed by the public, it endangers agents and slows the process and works in favor of Democrats and progressives.
If they kneecap ICE agents' discretion when it comes to use of force, it slows the process and works in favor of Democrats and progressives.
Democrats and Republicans working together on maximizing efficiency and morality of deportations would be something, but it simply is not possible. Democrats will resist every step of the way.
The quibble is that if Jose is willing to work on a farm in California for what are shit American wages but still a better deal than staying home, the progressive view is that allowing Jose to stay is not advocating against our own interests or wealth redistribution, it's Jose contributing his labor to the economy and getting paid.
Progressives simply don't care that he had to enter illegally to get to this point because they'd rather immigration be expanded in the first place. I'd personally rather more expansive work visas that allow them to do this while still being vetted, and with better wage/labor controls. The conservative view seems to be that if we got rid of all the illegals farmers would pay more and Americans would do it, of which I am skeptical.
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